Charleston daily hires Fernandes to cover business

Megan Fernandes

The (Charleston) Post and Courier has hired Megan Fernandes as a business and tourism reporter.

She has been a reporter for Foster’s Daily Democrat and SeacoastOnline in New Hampshire covering general community and business news in addition to specialized topics like education.

Before that, she was the retail, money, tech and transportation reporter at Pacific Business News in Honolulu.

Fernandes also worked at The Herald News in Joliet, Illinois. She is a graduate of Roosevelt University, where she was editor in chief of the student newspaper.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.